Mastering The Tapping Exercises

Hey guys, my first article here. I'll show you some arpeggios that can be tapped, just for you to try and gain the speed needed to tap. If you just don't understand something,ask me then, and chill out, I'm not a native English speaker.
Well, the T over every note will indicate that the note must be tapped. So,let start:

1 Exercise:
I've tuned the guitar in E[standard] just for you to see the scales more easily.

These is clearly a tapping exercise for the using of 2 fingers. Try to feel comfortable,find your way to do it. Then, each note must be tapped like, at least 8 times so train do it all day long till you feel the speed.

These is the last exercise,its pretty cool. Remember to repeat each note, its mandatory, so you gain speed, also it is more clear that you are doing a progression. Hope you master it, and thanks for reading the article.

over all this has some pretty good exercisesfor tapping, however I definately would have started with exercise 3 and 4, they are much simpler than exercises 1 and 2.
the only other thing I would have done differently is to explain how to tap at the beginning.
**NOTE: just an FYI you are using the word "these" where you should be using the word "this" for example "These is the last exercise..." should read "This is the last exercise..."I'm not going to hold it against you since you warned us up front that english is not your first language, but I figured you would probably like to know.

Just my opinion, but for lessons like this if you have the ability to record videos it would be great if you linked to a vid of yourself playing the exercises so people could see how it should look and sound when done correctly. Other than that, great article.

Silversleep wrote:
Just my opinion, but for lessons like this if you have the ability to record videos it would be great if you linked to a vid of yourself playing the exercises so people could see how it should look and sound when done correctly. Other than that, great article.

Quite right.The two finger technique is difficult and a video will be much helpful.

AndrewAmadeo wrote:
What it is: Tapping is using both hands and doing hammered and pulled notes on the fret board
Why you would use it: Because it helps even the worst guitarists look good infront of non musicians

I sort of would like clarification on for instance exercise 4: when playing the second tapped part on the G string, do you pick the first fifth fret pull off to the second fret or do you tap both the 5th and 9th fret in that example? Like what was the authors intention?

That was really funny to me, for some reason.
This is a good article, and I really like the licks you used as examples. Exercise 4 is really different, and it sounds cool. Numbers 2, 4, and 5 make me think of something from a Protest the Hero song.
An article on how to cleanly use your fret hand would be awesome, too.

rockgodman wrote:
I sort of would like clarification on for instance exercise 4: when playing the second tapped part on the G string, do you pick the first fifth fret pull off to the second fret or do you tap both the 5th and 9th fret in that example? Like what was the authors intention?

It's probably a fret-hand tap. Like a hammer onto the fret without picking anything first.

rockgodman wrote:
I sort of would like clarification on for instance exercise 4: when playing the second tapped part on the G string, do you pick the first fifth fret pull off to the second fret or do you tap both the 5th and 9th fret in that example? Like what was the authors intention?

Ehm, yeah, you've to tap them, anyway its just for practise, to pick it and then tap it is harder, or maybe faster than a begginer can afford. Thanks for commenting my article.

I often find I need a hair band around the neck to dampen out string noise to do complex tapping. In fact most shredding stuff. It sounds a lot cleaner, and i don't think there is anything wrong with using it. Ive heard a lot of people say "its cheating", but I disagree. Its a handicapp, but its not cheating. As paul gilbert would say "it doesnt matter what your fingers are actually doing, as long as it SOUNDS cool".